Battlestar Galactica 3.0
POSTED BY: misbehaven
UPDATED: Friday, October 13, 2006 13:48
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Just want to hear what everyone thinks about what direction BSG will go in season three. I saw a brief preview on the Sci-Fi channel not too long ago, and it's looking good.
Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, so long as you do it quiet like.
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I've been very pleased so far, and I anticipate more of the same in season three. However, I have big reservations about "Caprica", the spin-off series. Much like what happened to Stargate when they spun off Atlantis, I hope this doesn't cause a 'brain drain' amongst the writers. They shouldn't divide the writers up when they do two shows.
"I am your father, Luke. Give in to the Dark Side, you nob!" - Doug McKenzie
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Oh no. I hadn't even heard there was going to be another series. You're right. I hope they don't mess up a good thing.
Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, so long as you do it quiet like.
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I'm kinda ambivalent given the ending of last season. What we're about to get should be season 4, if they hadn't done the cheap "one year later" thing (all too often an excuse to change characters instead of actually developing characters).
Just makes it feel like they didn't think their cast could sustain a season's worth of character development without the Cylons around to cause trouble.
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
I'm kinda ambivalent given the ending of last season. What we're about to get should be season 4, if they hadn't done the cheap "one year later" thing (all too often an excuse to change characters instead of actually developing characters).
Just makes it feel like they didn't think their cast could sustain a season's worth of character development without the Cylons around to cause trouble.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
I've seen you post this one year later thing before. Go back and re watch the seasons. You have got to be kidding. Character development? Who is not developed? Starbuck? Apollo? Chief? Who? Without the cylons there is no story to tell! They would not be looking for earth. Must people say that even though the cylons are always in the background of the story they don't see them enough. Why are you a BSG hater?
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Oh, I'm not arguing at the character development; it's what I love most about the show.
My problem is that, in the last ep, they went from the arrival at New Caprica to it suddenly being one year later. They showed us the end result of that year (Tyrol and Cally are now married and retired, Cally is with child, Roslyn is running a school, Starbuck is effectively retired, Galactica and Pegasus are slowly but effectively being decommissioned, etc. . .) without showing any of the intervening year.
We're told what's been happening in general terms (preparedness is plumetting, the Cylons haven't been seen, Baltar is drinking and screwing his administration away), but we're not actually shown anything.
We saw the beginnings of the Cally/Tyrol ship (with Tyrol not-quite-over Boomer and Cally confessing her unrequited love), but we never saw Cally's unrequited love being. . . requited. We also never saw the long journey ahead of the Chief as he forces himself to get over Boomer. We never saw how Helo and Boomer progressed after the baby was "lost." We never saw the bulk of Apollo's command on Pegasus, or how he, Tighe, and his father reached the point where they were --prepared to effectively give up (as evidenced by Adama cashiering Tighe). We never saw Zarik's machinations for Baltar, we never saw the progression of Baltar's visions, or the Cylon Heroes arc (with Six and Boomer on Caprica), or. . .
That should've been the third season: showing the rise and decadence of New Caprica, as Adama tries desperately to hold the military together in the face of Baltar's incompetence and arrogance. The Chief/Cally romance, Starbuck's frustration at not really having any ranks to climb up (imagine our brash pilots, sitting on their thumbs with no real enemies to fight). Roslyn's simmering anger both at Baltar's betrayal and at the fact that they likely won't reach Earth. Adama's grudging alliance with the religious establishment, if only to try to get their inertia going again. Meanwhile, Six and Boomer try to redesign Cylon society from the inside (and how do they deal with not having an enemy to fight, or define themselves in relation to?).
The characters were changed from what they had been previously, but we're not shown the actual process that resulted in those changes.
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I'm really excited about it...
for one thing I know that Jane Espenson (writer of Shindig) is going to write at least one episode...
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Oh, I'm not arguing at the character development; it's what I love most about the show.
My problem is that, in the last ep, they went from the arrival at New Caprica to it suddenly being one year later. They showed us the end result of that year (Tyrol and Cally are now married and retired, Cally is with child, Roslyn is running a school, Starbuck is effectively retired, Galactica and Pegasus are slowly but effectively being decommissioned, etc. . .) without showing any of the intervening year.
We're told what's been happening in general terms (preparedness is plumetting, the Cylons haven't been seen, Baltar is drinking and screwing his administration away), but we're not actually shown anything.
We saw the beginnings of the Cally/Tyrol ship (with Tyrol not-quite-over Boomer and Cally confessing her unrequited love), but we never saw Cally's unrequited love being. . . requited. We also never saw the long journey ahead of the Chief as he forces himself to get over Boomer. We never saw how Helo and Boomer progressed after the baby was "lost." We never saw the bulk of Apollo's command on Pegasus, or how he, Tighe, and his father reached the point where they were --prepared to effectively give up (as evidenced by Adama cashiering Tighe). We never saw Zarik's machinations for Baltar, we never saw the progression of Baltar's visions, or the Cylon Heroes arc (with Six and Boomer on Caprica), or. . .
That should've been the third season: showing the rise and decadence of New Caprica, as Adama tries desperately to hold the military together in the face of Baltar's incompetence and arrogance. The Chief/Cally romance, Starbuck's frustration at not really having any ranks to climb up (imagine our brash pilots, sitting on their thumbs with no real enemies to fight). Roslyn's simmering anger both at Baltar's betrayal and at the fact that they likely won't reach Earth. Adama's grudging alliance with the religious establishment, if only to try to get their inertia going again. Meanwhile, Six and Boomer try to redesign Cylon society from the inside (and how do they deal with not having an enemy to fight, or define themselves in relation to?).
The characters were changed from what they had been previously, but we're not shown the actual process that resulted in those changes.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
OOPs...Gottcha.
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I'm looking forward to Season Three, greatly. It's one of my 3 favorite shows (Firefly, Lost, BSG). Also, I'm a fan of the 1 year skip-ahead, though I can certainly see why it's bothered some.
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From what I hear, you'll get to see what happens in the intervening year over the course over the first half of the season.
I've still got to wait to scrape enough money together to buy the S2 DVD so that I get to the point where I can wait for the S3 DVD to come out. Ahh the pains of living in the UK with no Satellite TV 
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